On the first day of the New Year, a cold wind swept through Beijing, rattling windows and sharpening the city's winter chill. Inside a packed theater, however, the air carried a very different feeling — one of warmth and anticipation.
The frozen Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, came alive with the sound of drums and the rhythmic clanging of ice picks, as nearly 200 members of ice dragon boat teams vigorously struck the icy surface to move forward, drawing enthusiastic cheers from the spectators.
I come from Tajikistan, a mountainous land in Central Asia, where Tajik — a variety of Persian — is my native tongue.
At the Global Mayors Dialogue in Harbin on Jan 7, city leaders worldwide explored the aerospace museum at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
Educators and students gathered in early December at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to share their experiences of teaching and learning Chinese.
The country's Smart Education of China platform has become the world's largest high-quality educational resource center, with total visits exceeding 72.6 billion, the Ministry of Education said recently.
Guangdong province expanded the opening-up of its educational sector to the outside world during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), a senior provincial educational official said at a news conference in Guangzhou on Wednesday.
When Karyna Kovalevska, an 18-year-old from Ukraine, first visited China in 2019 as part of a Confucius Institute summer exchange program, she never imagined the country would one day become her second home.
Before Benjamin Rene and Loic Michel left their hometown of Annecy in southeastern France in September 2024, China was, to them, a distant yet fascinating place, a name more often encountered in headlines than in everyday conversation.
Memories take Katharine Carruthers back to when she began studying Chinese at Durham University more than 40 years ago, a time when the subject was far less common in the United Kingdom than it is today.
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